#Ethnologe

[krautjunker]

Reisen in Taiga und Tundra

Buchvorstellung von Werner Berens VorbemerkungenSo heißt das Buch bzw. die Übersetzung aus dem Schwedischen, erschienen als Buch der  Friedenauer Presse, einem Imprint des Verlages Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Der Autor, Matthias Alexander Castrén, berichtet, beschreibt, erzählt darin auf 313 eng beschriebenen Seiten in den im Folgenden erwähnten Kapiteln und vielen Unterkapiteln über seine…

[mpchev]

Dissertation on Fanfiction Bookbinding — Looking for participants! [EDIT: Thank you so much, participants found!!!]

[Edit continued: I'm still sorting through emails and setting up meetings, will reply to everyone very soon, I can't even begin to thank everyone enough for the visibility that's been given to this 💜 I'll keep the updates coming as I work on the dissertation (and learn how to bookbind), in case anyone would like to follow along. For any questions about the research or comments/suggestions/resources about ficbinding, my asks are wide open. Thank you thank you thank you!!!]

Hi! My name is Marie Chevrier, I’m currently doing my postgraduate dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding, and I’m looking for people to talk to about it!

If you’ve ever taken a fanfic from somewhere online and turned it into a physical copy, either for yourself or as a gift, I’d love to know more. From printer paper stapled together to typesetting and painted edges, nothing is too simple or too complex — I’m interested in the whole process, what motivates readers or authors to bring the story to a different format, and how it’s one more way to interact with stories actively and creatively. This will be the final project of my MLitt in Folklore and Ethnology with the Elphinstone Institute (University of Aberdeen, Scotland).

What to Expect

To participate, you must be 18 or older and speak English. I’ll give you more details and answer any questions you might have via email, and will then set up individual video calls with participants (if you happen to be in North-East Scotland, we could also meet at an agreed public location). I’ll tell you more about the dissertation and explain how what you share will be used, which depends entirely on what you agree to, including if you would prefer your contribution to be credited or anonymised. I will ask you about your experience with fanfiction bookbinding and if you have some examples to show me, I would love to see them! Meetings will last approximately 45–90 minutes and take place in June 2024. You have the right to withdraw your participation at any time.

Contact Information

If you’d like to participate or have any questions, please send me an email at m.chevrier.23@abdn.ac.uk

To know more about the Elphinstone Institute, please visit https://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/

To know more about me, here's an intro post for you.

If for any reason you don’t wish to participate but still have comments/suggestions/resources/musings you’d like to send my way, please do!

[thisprettyukrainianletter]

Interiors of Ukrainian traditional residential buildings from central parts of Ukraine. Exhibits of the Museum of Folk Architecture  in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky on the pages of the album "Treasures of our memory" (1993)

[useless-catalanfacts]

People dancing ball de bot (traditional Mallorcan folk dance) in the public of a concert by the Mallorcan folk band Música Nostra.

Video posted by Ballades a Mallorca on Instagram (full video in the link).

If you have been following this blog for a while and have paid attention to the songs I've translated, you might recognise a few of the songs they sing in the video 😉

[handweavers]

my roommates' best friends are over for a pizza night, everyone but me is in their early 40s, two are het married couples, and we're all sitting around the tv watching my roommate (the guy) play a real time strategy game in silence

[profesors]

◾A Serbian girl dressed in serbian traditional clothes from Central Serbia 🇷🇸

◾By Pavel Surovi

[aleksandra-czudzak]

Zając ⦿ Hare ⦿ (Lepus) "Zającowi przypisywano również związki z siłami zła. Podejrzewano, że chętnie wcielają się w niego dusze zmarłych i demony. Na Podtatrzu i w Beskidach Zachodnich jego postać przybierał często topielec, który wabił człowieka aby go utopić, lub nawet sam szatan - prowadzący ludzi na bezdroża, aby zawładnąć ich duszą." ⦿⦿⦿ "Hares were also associated with evil forces. It was believed that the souls of the dead and demons willingly took on their form. In the Podhale region and the Western Beskids, it's figure was often taken on by a topielec, who lured people in order to drown them, or even Satan himself - leading people astray in order to take possession of their souls." - From "Góralskie czary. Leksykon Magii Podtatrza i Beskidów Zachodnich" by Katarzyna Ceklarz i Urszula Janicka-Krzywda. published by @tatrzanskiparknarodowy

[archiveofaffinities]

Kisho Kurokawa, National Ethnology Museum, Courtyard, Osaka, Japan, 1977

[zlatno]

A metal belt, ćemer, is worn around the waist. It is made of several metal plates, the center one of which has a raised arch shape, from which hang five chains. These are often very richly made.

Montenegrin national attire

[safije]

Young girl of the Ladakhi people © Subodh Shetty

Ladakh, literally "Land of High Passes", is a region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of the most sparsely populated regions in Jammu and Kashmir and its culture and history are closely related to that of Tibet. Ladakh is divided into the primarily Muslim district of Kargil and the primarily Buddhist district of Leh.

[mpchev]

You like reading fanfics? How about reading about fanfics? 😏

Here’s what I've read so far (or am currently getting through) for my dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding! I'll be updating it as I go until the end of July. If you have any recs to add to the towering pile or any questions/opinions about something on there, I’m all ears!

on fan studies & ficbinding ✔

Alexander, Julia, ‘Making fanfiction beautiful enough for a bookshelf’, The Verge, 9 March 2021 <https://www.theverge.com/22311788/fanfiction-bookbinding-tiktok-diy-star-wars-harry-potter-twitter-fandom> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Buchsbaum, Shira Belén, ‘Binding fan fiction and reexamining book production models’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler, ‘Ethical and privacy considerations for research using online fandom data’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Jenkins, Henry, Textual Pochers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (New York: Routeledge, 1992)

Jenkins, Henry, ‘Transmedia Storytelling 101’, Pop Junctions, 21 March 2007 <http://henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html#sthash.gSETwxQX.dpuf> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Hellekson, Karen, ‘Making Use Of: The Gift, Commerce, and Fans’, Cinema Journal, 54, no. 3 (2015), 125–131

Kennedy, Kimberly, ‘Fan binding as a method of fan work preservation’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Minkel, Elizabeth, ‘Before “Fans,” There Were “Kranks,” “Longhairs,” and “Lions”: How Do Fandom Gain Their Names?’, Atlas Obscura, 30 May 2024 <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fandom-names> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Penley, Constance, Nasa / Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America (London: Verso, 1997)

Price, Ludi, ‘Fanfiction, Self-Publishing, and the Materiality of the Book: A Fan Writer’s Autoethnography’, Humanities, 11, no. 100 (2022), 1–20

Schiller, Melanie, ‘Transmedia Storytelling: New Practices and Audiences’, in Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era, ed. by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 99–107

on folklore, the internet, other background reading ✔

Barthes, Roland, ‘La mort de l’auteur’ in Le Bruissement de la langue: Essais critiques IV (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984)

Blank, Trevor J., Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2009)

Mauss, Marcel, ‘Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques.’, L’année sociologique, 1923–1924; digital edition by Jean-Marie Tremblay, Les classiques des sciences sociales, 17 February 2002, <http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/mauss_marcel/socio_et_anthropo/2_essai_sur_le_don/essai_sur_le_don.html> [accessed 10 June 2024]

McCulloch, Gretchen, Because Internet: Understanding How Language is Changing (Random House, 2019)

Niles, John D., Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1999)

hopefully coming up next (haven't started yet)

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, ed. by Paul Booth (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)

A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, ed. by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021)

Dietz, Laura, ‘Showing the scars: A short case study of de-enhancement of hypertext works for circulation via fan binding or Kindle Direct Publishing’, 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ‘23), September 4–8, 2023, Rome Italy (ACM: New York, 2023)

Fathallah, Judith May, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017)

Finn, Kavita Mudan, and Jessica McCall, ‘Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe’, Critical Survey, 28, no. 2 (2016), 27–38

Hjorth, Larissa et al., eds. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)

Jacobs, Naomi, and JSA Lowe, ‘The Design of Printed Fanfiction: A Case Study of Down to Agincourt Fanbinding’, Proceedings from the Document Academy, 9, issue 1, article 5

Jenkins, Henry, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006)

Jenkins, Henry, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning In A Networked Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2013)

Kennedy, Kimberly, and Shira Buchsbaum, ‘Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions’, Humanities, 11, no. 67 (2022), 1–18

Kirby, Abby, ‘Examining Collaborative Fanfiction: New Practices in Hyperdiegesis and Poaching’, Humanities, 11, no. 87 (2002), 1–9

Kustritz, Anne, Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction (New Work: Routeledge, 2024)

Lamerichs, Nicolle, Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affecive Reception in Fan Cultures, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam Universtiy Press, 2018)

Popova, Milena, ‘Follow the trope: A digital (auto)ethnography for fan studies’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Rosenblatt, Betsy, and Rebecca Tushnet, ‘Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use’, in eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices, ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves

Soller, Bettina, ‘Filing off the Serial Numbers: Fanfiction and its Adaptation to the Book Market’, in Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence, ed. by Johannes Fehrle, Werner Schäfke-Zell (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 58–85

[thisprettyukrainianletter]

Wall and fireplace paintings in interior and exterior design of Ukrainian rural cottages from Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Kremenchuk areas, 1924-1928.

The book (where the main text is ukrainian, but attribution of photos you may see also in German) is here : https://uartlib.org/istoriya-ukrayinskogo-mistetstva/yevgeniya-berchenko-nastinne-malyuvannya-ukrayinskih-hat-ta-gospodarskih-budivel-pri-nih-dnipropetrovshhina/

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A piece of a traditional song from Terres de l'Ebre (Catalonia).

Lyrics in Catalan and translation to English:

Donzelleta agraciada, a qui vos compararé? A la flor de la perera o a les roses del roser? A la flor de la perera us comparo per blancor, a les roses del roser us comparo pel color.

Beautiful maiden, who shall I compare you to? To the pear tree flower or to the rose bush's roses? I compare you to the pear tree flower for the paleness, I compare you to the rose bush's roses for the colour.

This singer has recently formed a band called Terrae to play traditional music from the Terres de l'Ebre region of Catalonia. You can hear them play the full version of this song, titled Cançó del pandero, in their first EP.

Link to the song on YouTube here.

Link to the song on Spotify here.

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Te Tauti (Porcupine) fish helmet https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/267666

This is a warrior's helmet, made from the dried skin of a porcupine fish (Diodon sp., probably Diodon hystrix), lined with plaited pandanus strips. The skin is oriented so that the tail forms a peak at the back and the two fins form wings on either side. The lining has been partly plaited to fit, like a rounded basket, but then cut and overlapped in three places so that it fits snugly. The base is edged with a roll of plant fibre which has been neatly sewn to the edge of the skin with a blanket stitch in fine twisted cord of light and dark fibres.

[profesors]

◾ A Serbian bride from the mountainous area above the city of Banya Luka(srb. Бања Лука/lat. Banja Luka), today Republic of Serbs, Bosnia & Herzegovina

◾Time: 1910s